Detailed Program

A Distributed Processing Communication Scheme for Real-Time Applications over Wide-Area Networks
Sanetora Hiragi; Bijoy Chand Chatterjee; Eiji Oki; Akio Kawabata
Cache Control Method for Multiple Web Cache Servers Based on Co-Occurrence Degree
Makoto Misumi; Masato Tariki; Noriaki Kamiyama
SwitchingNet: Edge-Assisted Model Switching for Accurate Video Recognition over Best-Effort Networks
Florian Beye; Yasunori Babazaki; Ryuhei Ando; Takashi Oshiba; Koichi Nihei; Katsuhiko Takahashi
FASTEN: Towards a FAult-tolerant and STorage EfficieNt Cloud: Balancing Between Replication and Deduplication
Tariqul Islam; Sabbir Ahmed; Md Nahiduzzaman; Faisal Haque Bappy; Raiful Hasan; Tarannum Shaila Zaman

Track 2: Networking Solutions for Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games (1/3)

Room: LAUGHLIN 1
Chair: Ombretta Gaggi

Why Real-Time Matters: Performance Evaluation of Recent Ultra-Low Latency Audio Communication Systems
Ramon Moscatelli; Kevin Stahel; Robert Kraneis; Christian Werner
Dynamic Clustering Page Allocation for Read-Intensive Multimedia Streaming Applications
Han Jang; Youngbin Jin; Dongjun Lee; Ben Lee
Service Graphs Generation in Intent-Based Networks
Sasan Sabour; Amin Ebrahimzadeh; Fetahi Wuhib; Mbarka Soualhia; Roch Glitho
Accelerating Feedback Control for QoE Fairness in Adaptive Video Streaming over ICN
Rei Nakagawa; Satoshi Ohzahata; Ryo Yamamoto

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (1/6)

Room: LAUGHLIN 2
Chair: Mohammad S Khan

Noisy Label Detection for Multi-labeled Malware
Naoki Fukushi; Toshiki Shibahara; Hiroki Nakano; Takashi Koide; Daiki Chiba
COPS: A Compact On-device Pipeline for real-time Smishing detection
Bhogaraju Swarajya Sai Harichandana; Sumit Kumar; Manjunath Bhimappa Ujjinakoppa; Barath Raj Kandur Raja
Assessing Time Offset and Classifier Impacts on Preamble-based Cross-Collection SEI
Joshua Tyler; Donald R Reising; Mohamed K Fadul; Mina Sartipi
Detecting Reentrancy Vulnerability in Smart Contracts using Graph Convolution Networks
Hozefa Lakadawala; Komla Dzigbede; Yu Chen

Track 10: AI/ML for Communications and Networking (1/4)

Room: LAUGHLIN 3
Chair: Carla Mouradian

Automated Resource Dimensioning in Cloud Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning Approach
Carla Mouradian; Fetahi Wuhib
Classification-Based Transfer Learning for Blind Adaptive Receiver Beamforming
Michael J Wentz; Jack Capper; Binoy Kurien; Keith Forsythe; Kaushik Chowdhury
BitFormer: Transformer-based Neural Network for Bitrate Prediction in Real-Time Communications
Tailai Song; Gianluca Perna; Paolo Garza; Michela Meo; Maurizio M. Munafò
DRL-APNS: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Powered Framework for Accurate Predictive Network Slicing Allocation
Amr Abo-eleneen; Alaa Awad Abdellatif; Aiman Erbad; Amr Mohamed

Track 6: IoT: From Sensors to Vertical Applications (1/3)

Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2
Chair: Savio Sciancalepore

Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs
Ahmed Boubrima; Zhambyl Shaikhanov; Edward W. Knightly
A Lightweight Aggregate Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones
Image Bhattarai; Cong Pu; Kim-Kwang Raymond Raymond Choo
Distributed Hardware-Assisted Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Things
Abdulaziz Alshaeri; Mohamed Younis
Analyses of Hidden and Exposed Nodes in LPWAN with Energy Detection Based Carrier Sense
Shusuke Narieda; Takeo Fujii

Track 5 and 7: 5G Services and Security

Room: CARSON CITY 1
Chair: Yingfei Dong

Deceiving Post-hoc Explainable AI (XAI) Methods in Network Intrusion Detection
Thulitha Senevirathna; Bartlomiej Siniarski; Madhusanka Liyanage; Shen Wang
Resource-aware Service Prioritization in a Slice-supportive 5G Core Control Plane for Improved Resilience and Sustenance
Supriya Kumari; Shwetha Vittal; Antony Franklin A
Beyond Tokens: Distributed, De-centralized, Local Authorization Framework for Beyond 5GC SBI
Bharath Kumar R; Rajavelsamy R
Impacts of a Single GPS Spoofer on Multiple Receivers: Formal Analysis and Experimental Evaluation
Wenxin Chen; Yingfei Dong; Zhenhai Duan

Work-In-Progress 1, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 2
Chair: Pietro Manzoni

Stress Evaluation with Biometric Information Using Smartphone by Radio Wave Reflection
Suzumi Sato; Hayato Shimano; Megumi Saito; Shigeru Shimamoto; Nao Kobayashi
Opportunistic Protocols for People Counting in Dynamic Networks
Alexander Jung; Helge Parzyjegla; Peter Danielis
Robust Interactive HMI for Occupancy Estimation in Smart Buildings (WIP)
Maher Dissem; Manar Amayri; Nizar Bouguila
Wi-Fi Sensing for Human Identification through ESP32 Devices: an Experimental Study
Fabio Gaiba; Luca Bedogni; Giacomo Gori; Andrea Melis; Marco Prandini
A Real-Time Human Tracking System Using Multiple Cameras to Reduce Network Loads
Hikaru Katayama; Hideto Yano; Tomoki Yoshihisa; Hideyuki Shimonishi
Implementation and Evaluation of a Facial Image Obscuring Method for Person Identification to Protect Personal Data
Satoru Matsumoto; Tomoki Yoshihisa; Hideyuki Shimonishi; Tomoya Kawakami; Yuuichi Teranishi
A Framework for Context Recognition from Voice Commands and Conversations with Smart Assistants
Jeniya Sultana; Razib Iqbal

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 12:30 - 13:30

Luncheon

Room: SCENIC

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 13:30 - 15:30

Track 1: Edge/Cloud Computing and Networking (2/3)

Room: RENO
Chair: Marco Di Felice

Development and Evaluation of Information-Centric Service Mesh Using NDN Function Chaining
Hideyuki Saito; Kenji Kanai; Hidenori Nakazato
Network-Transparent Load Balancing and Migration for Edge Computing
Yohei Namba; Ryo Morishima; Hiroaki Nishi
Proactive Caching in the Edge-Cloud Continuum with Federated Learning
Ivan Zyrianoff; Leonardo Montecchiari; Angelo Trotta; Lorenzo Gigli; Carlos Alberto Kamienski; Marco Di Felice
Enhancing Indoor Millimeter Radio Communication: A Probabilistic Approach to RSS Map Estimation
Daiki Kodama; Kenji Ohira; Hideyuki Shimonishi; Toshiro Nakahira; Daisuke Murayama; Tomoki Ogawa

Track 2: Networking Solutions for Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games (2/3)

Room: LAUGHLIN 1
Chair: Silvia Mirri

Anti-Money Laundering in Cryptocurrencies Through Graph Neural Networks: A Comparative Study
Simone Marasi; Stefano Ferretti
On Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Music Playlist Success
Roberto Cavicchioli; Jia Cheng Hu; Marco Furini
On developing a procedural level generator based on the Model Synthesis algorithm in the context of serious games
Davide Paolillo; Bryan Corradino; Gianni Tumedei; Mariagrazia Benassi; Catia Prandi
Enhancing Road Safety through Fitness-to-Drive Metrics: The NextPerception Project on Driver Behavior Analysis and Gamification
Maria Mengozzi; Manuel Andruccioli; Silvia Mirri; Giovanni Delnevo; Roberto Girau

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (2/6)

Room: LAUGHLIN 2
Chair: Rajavelsamy R

GhostBuster: Detecting Misbehaving Remote ID-enabled Drones
Mart Keizer; Savio Sciancalepore; Gabriele Oligeri
Secured Cluster-Based Electricity Theft Detectors Against Blackbox Evasion Attacks
Islam Elgarhy; Ahmed T. El-toukhy; Mahmoud M Badr; Mohamed M E A Mahmoud; Mostafa M. Fouda; Maazen Alsabaan; Hisham A. Kholidy
Malicious Log Detection Using Machine Learning to Maximize the Partial AUC
Taishi Nishiyama; Atsutoshi Kumagai; Akinori Fujino; Kazunori Kamiya
Introduction to Quantum Systems and Security Vulnerabilities
Ignacio Astaburuaga; Shamik Sengupta

Track 10: AI/ML for Communications and Networking (2/4)

Room: LAUGHLIN 3
Chair: Thorsten Herfet

Proactive Millimeter-wave Link Quality Prediction Utilizing Out-of-Band CSI Fingerprinting and Supervised Learning: An Experimental Study
Shoki Ohta; Cheng Chen; Takayuki Nishio
CSI2PC: 3D Point Cloud Reconstruction Using CSI
Natsuki Ikuo; Sorachi Kato; Takuma Matsukawa; Tomoki Murakami; Takuya Fujihashi; Takashi Watanabe; Shunsuke Saruwatari
Electricity Theft Detection Approach Using One-Class Classification for AMI
Madeleine Miller; Hany Elshall; Mahmoud M Badr; Mohamed Baza; Mohamed M E A Mahmoud; Mostafa M. Fouda
Hidden in Time, Revealed in Frequency: Spectral Features and Multiresolution Analysis for Encrypted Internet Traffic Classification
Nathan Dillbary; Roi Yozevitch; Amit Dvir; Ran Dubin; Chen Hajaj

Track 6: IoT: From Sensors to Vertical Applications (2/3)

Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2
Chair: Ion Turcanu

Reactive Jamming of the Helium Network
Srinivas Tenneti; Romika Jakhar; Khaled Harfoush
Route Selection in Low-cost Participatory Mobile Sensing of Air Quality
Mohamed Anis Fekih; Walid Bechkit; Herve Rivano
On the decentralization of Mobile Crowdsensing in Distributed Ledgers: an architectural vision
Lorenzo Gigli; Federico Montori; Mirko Zichichi; Luca Bedogni; Stefano Ferretti; Marco Di Felice
Maximized Content Offloading for Content Centric V2G Networks
Arzoo Miglani; Neeraj Kumar

Work-In-Progress 2, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 1
Chair: Zhangyu Guan

MalBuster: Scalable, Real-Time, and Concept Drift-Adaptive Malware Detection for Smart Environments
Jingwen Wang; Peilong Li; Ethan G Weitkamp; Yusuke Satani; Adam W Omundsen
Detecting Zero-day Attack with Federated Learning using Autonomously Extracted Anomalies in IoT
Takahiro Ohtani; Ryo Yamamoto; Satoshi Ohzahata
Architectural Exploration and Design for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Indoor Robotics Systems
Ayub Shah; Roberto Passerone
Deep Learning-Based Proactive Physical Layer Handover using Cameras for Indoor Environment
Khanh Nam Nguyen; Kenichi Takizawa
FlexHash: Hybrid Locality Sensitive Hashing for IoT Device Identification
Nathan Thom; Jay Thom; Batyr Charyyev; Emily Hand; Shamik Sengupta
Water Wastage Detection in Smart Homes through IoT and Machine Learning
Chiara Brunelli; Gianmarco Pappacoda; Ivan Zyrianoff; Luciano Bononi; Marco Di Felice
Enabling a Scalable and Adaptive Cloud Infrastructure for Virtual Users in the Social Internet of Things
Matteo Anedda; Mauro Fadda; Roberto Girau; Daniel D Giusto; Silvia Corpino

Work-In-Progress 3, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 2
Chair: Jin Nakazato

Leveraging Edge Computing and Orchestration Platform for Enhanced Pedestrian Safety Application: The DEDICAT-6G Approach
Salah Eddine Merzougui; Xhulio Limani; Andreas Gavrielides; Philippe Reiter; Claudio E. Palazzi; Johann M. Marquez-Barja
Distributed framework of WSN-assisted UAV network for highway surveillance
Muhammad Mansoor Ashraf; Saadi Boudjit
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Channel State Information Prediction in Internet of Vehicles
Xing Liu; Wei Yu; Cheng Qian; David Griffith; Nada Golmie
Blockchain-Enabled RF Radiation Exposure Level Measurement in Wireless Mobile Networks
Nivin Viraj Madawalage; Tharani Thalgahagoda; Inushi Gunatilake; Pramitha Fernando; Geeth Priyankara Wijesiri; Chatura Seneviratne; Madhusanka Liyanage
Towards Faster DRL Training: An Edge AI Approach for UAV Obstacle Avoidance by Splitting Complex Environments
Patrick J McEnroe; Shen Wang; Madhusanka Liyanage
Dynamic-focusing LiDAR Sensor based on Optical OFDM
Gunzung Kim; Jeongsook Eom; Soojung Hur; YongWan Park

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 15:30 - 16:00

Networking & Coffee Break

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

Panel 1: Emerging Devices, Networks, and Apps for Public Safety: Opportunities and Challenges

Room: TWILIGHT

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:30

Track 1: Edge/Cloud Computing and Networking (3/3)

Room: RENO
Chair: Ren-Hung Hwang

Edge-oriented Point Cloud Compression by Moving Object Detection for Realtime Smart Monitoring
Itsuki Takada; Daiki Nitto; Yoshihiro Midoh; Noriyuki Miura; Jun Shiomi; Ryoichi Shinkuma
Queue-Length-based Offloading for Delay Sensitive Applications in Federated Cloud-Edge-Fog Systems
Ren-Hung Hwang; Yuan-Cheng Lai; Ying-Dar Lin
Fluid Computing in the Internet of Things: A Digital Twin Approach
Luca Bedogni; Marco Picone; Marcello Pietri; Marco Mamei; Franco Zambonelli
Lightweight Multimodal Fusion Computing Model for Emotional Streaming in Edge Platform
Jyotirmoy Karjee; Karan Raj Kakwani; Kartik Anand; Praveen Naik S

Track 2: Networking Solutions for Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games (3/3)

Room: LAUGHLIN 1
Chair: Stefano Ferretti

Burst Collision Reduction Scheme for Low-Latency Video Transmission in 5G Uplink Systems
Tatsuya Fukui; Kousuke Morita; Hiroki Ishiduka; Yuki Sakaue; Satoshi Narikawa
Cost-Effective Network Packet Manipulation and Error-Detection Device
Alexander F. K. Janus; Steffen Moser; Frank Slomka
Cipher Modulation for Optical Camera Communication with Digital Signage
Ayano Higuchi; Yu Nakayama
Keyboardless Keyboard: Smart Phone Gyroscope for Improved User Interface
Gustavo Flores; Ani Nahapetian
PePC: Popularity based Early Predictive Caching in Named Data Networks
Neminath Hubballi; Pankaj Chaudhary; Sameer G Kulkarni

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (3/6)

Room: LAUGHLIN 2
Chair: Marco Di Felice

Positive Reputation Score for Bitcoin P2P Network
Simeon Wuthier; Nazmus Sakib; Sang-Yoon Chang
Spotting Fake Profiles in Social Networks via Keystroke Dynamics
Alvin Kuruvilla; Rojanaye Daley; Rajesh Kumar
Authenticating AI-Generated Social Media Images Using Frequency Domain Analysis
Nihal Poredi; Deeraj Nagothu; Yu Chen
Digital Twin Integrity Protection in Distributed Control Systems
Mohammad Ebrahimabadi; Javad Bahrami; Mohamed Younis; Naghmeh Karimi

Track 10: AI/ML for Communications and Networking (3/4)

Room: LAUGHLIN 3
Chair: Satheesh Kumar Perepu

Goals are Enough: Inducing AdHoc cooperation among unseen Multi-Agent systems in IMFs
Kaushik Dey; Satheesh Kumar Perepu; Abir Das
Distributed Multi-Agent Deep Q-Learning for Fast Roaming in IEEE 802.11ax Wi-Fi Systems
Ting-Hui Wang; Li-Hsiang Shen; Kai-Ten Feng
SliceGPT --- OpenAI GPT-3.5 LLM, Blockchain and Non-Fungible Token Enabled Intelligent 5G/6G Network Slice Broker and Marketplace
Eranga Bandara; Sachin Shetty; Abdul Rahman; Ravi Mukkamala; Peter Foytik; Xueping Liang
RAFT: A Real-Time Framework for Root Cause Analysis in 5G and Beyond Vulnerability Detection
Yifeng Peng; Xinyi Li; Jingda Yang; Sudhanshu Arya; Ying Wang

Track 6: IoT: From Sensors to Vertical Applications (3/3)

Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2
Chair: Saguna Saguna

Lifelog Mesh Sensor Network System Supporting Wake-up Control Function based on States of Power Generation
Haoting Zhang; Hiroshi Yamamoto
Recognizing Seasonal Sleep Patterns of Elderly in Smart Homes Using Clustering
Zahraa Shahid; Saguna Saguna; Christer Åhlund
A Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition System on Raspberry Pi: A Deep Learning-based Approach
Alyssa Yu; Cheng Qian; Yifan Guo
Sensor Sound Classification in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Based on Multiple Features and Neural Networks
Igor Fontes; Arthur Melo; Alejandro C Frery; Andre Aquino
Efficient and Reliable Maintenance for SDN-based Scheduled Wireless Networks
Farzad Veisi; Julien Montavont; Fabrice Theoleyre

Work-In-Progress 4, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 1
Chair: Lydia Obeng

Enhanced Scheduling Strategy and Energy Efficiency for Extended Reality in 5G Advanced
Vinay Kumar Shrivastava; Sriganesh Rajendran; Aby Kanneath Abraham; Rajavelsamy Rajadurai
Objective QoE Models for Cloud-based First Person Shooter Game over Mobile Networks
Henrique Souza Rossi; Karan Mitra; Christer Åhlund; Irina Cotanis; Niclas Ögren; Per Johansson
Securing MQTT-M2M Communications in a Food Retail Distribution
Mattia Giovanni Spina; Mauro Tropea; Floriano De Rango
FedRx: Federated Distillation-based Solution for Preventing Hospitals Overcrowding during Seasonal Diseases using MEC
Sahraoui Yesin; Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache; Carlos T. Calafate; Pietro Manzoni
Digital Twin for Bruise Detection in Precision Agriculture
Lydia D Obeng

Work-In-Progress 5, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 2
Chair: Kamiyama, Noriaki

Regional Correlation Aided Mobile Traffic Prediction with Spatiotemporal Deep Learning
Jeongjun Park; Lusungu Josh Mwasinga; Huigyu Yang; Syed Muhammad Raza; Duc Tai Le; Moonseong Kim; Min Young Chung; Hyunseung Choo
Dynamic Mirror Placement for Reducing Inter-AS Traffic in NDN
Xuheng Cao; Noriaki Kamiyama
A Real-time Anonymous Traffic Detection based on Reinforcement Learning
Dazhou Liu; Younghee Park
RDMA Transmission Control Method: Using Network Resource Allocation For Wide-Area Data Collection
Ryouhei Tsugami; Tatsuya Fukui; Satoshi Narikawa
Zero-touch Service Management for 6G verticals: Smart Traffic Management Case Study
Raúl Cuervo Bello; Nina Slamnik-Krijestorac; Johann M. Marquez-Barja
RGB-D Camera-based Object Grounding Surface Estimation System
Natsuki Natori; Masayuki Mikuriya; Fumitoshi Ogino; Yu Nakayama
Multi-channel Transport Scheduler for Extended Reality in Distributed Computing
Jyotirmoy Karjee; Praveen Naik S; Kartik Anand; Utkash Sharma; Abhay Thakur

Sunday, 07 January 2024, 19:30 - 20:30

Opening and Poster 1

Room: VISTA

Monday, 08 January 2024, 09:00 - 10:00

Keynote 2: Keynote from Industry: Designed to Perform

Room: TWILIGHT

Monday, 08 January 2024, 10:00 - 10:30

Networking & Coffee Break

Monday, 08 January 2024, 10:30 - 12:30

Track 8: Digital Twins By/For Networking and Communication

Room: RENO
Chair: Luca Bedogni

The Degree of Entanglement: Cyber-Physical Awareness in Digital Twin Applications
Marco Picone; Stefano Mariani; Roberto Cavicchioli; Paolo Burgio; Arslane Hamza Cherif
Digital Shadow Sensor Framework for Smart Agriculture: Time-series Prediction through Data Segmentation and Clustering
Luca Sciullo; Angelo Trotta; Sara Bosi; Luciano Bononi; Marco Di Felice
On the Integration of Digital Twin Networks into City Digital Twins: Benefits and Challenges
Ion Turcanu; German Castignani; Sébastien Faye
Exploitation of Digital Twins in Smart Manufacturing
Giacomo Cabri; Alireza Rahimi

Track 4: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY (1/2)

Room: LAUGHLIN 1
Chair: Elmahedi Mahalal

Pragmatic Goal-Oriented Communications under Semantic-Effectiveness Channel Errors
Tomas Huttebraucker; Mohamed Sana; Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Concatenated Structure of EP and Turbo Equalizer for Overloaded Massive MIMO Detection
Takuma Kobayashi; Takumi Takahashi; Shinsuke Ibi; Seiichi Sampei
Interference-Aware Analog Beam Selection for Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Hybrid Beamforming over Millimeter-Wave Channels
Shunsuke Kamiwatari; Masaaki Ito; Issei Kanno; Kengo Ando; Koji Ishibashi
Enabling Cooperative Hybrid Beamforming in TDD-based Distributed MIMO Systems
Nariman Torkzaban; Mohammad Ali Khojastepour; John S. Baras

Track 9: Communication and Applications for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles on Land, Water, and Sky

Room: LAUGHLIN 2
Chair: Onur Altintas

Link Setup Latency in Vehicle-to-Vehicle WLANs: A Comparative Study
Takamasa Higuchi; Seyhan Ucar; Chunghan Lee; Onur Altintas
Platoon Vulnerability due to Network Topology and Targeted Vehicle
Constance D Hendrix; Gedare Bloom
Evaluation of NR-Sidelink for Cooperative Industrial AGVs
Shubhangi Bhadauria; Klea Plaku; Yash Deshpande; Wolfgang Kellerer
On the Analysis of AI-Optimized Aerial Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Mohammad Shah Alamgir; Brian T Kelley
A Cyclic Hyper-parameter Selection Approach for Reinforcement Learning-based UAV Path Planning
Michael R Jones; Soufiene Djahel; Kristopher Welsh

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (4/6)

Room: LAUGHLIN 3
Chair: Heena Rathore

Evasion Attacks in Smart Power Grids: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Ahmed T. El-toukhy; Mohamed M E A Mahmoud; Atef H. Bondok; Mostafa M. Fouda; Maazen Alsabaan
A Multi-Level Dempster-Shafer and Reinforcement Learning-Based Reputation System for Connected Vehicle Security
Pranay Chowdary Jasti; Henry Griffith; Heena Rathore
Community-Sourced Bluetooth Low Energy Device Fingerprinting Based on Link Layer Packets
Anthony Jairam; Yong Wang
Game Theory for Privacy-Preserving Cybersecurity Information Exchange Framework
Ignacio Astaburuaga; Shamik Sengupta

Track 10: AI/ML for Communications and Networking (4/4)

Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2
Chair: Abiola Adegboyega

MuLeS: a Multi-client Learning-based MPQUIC Scheduler
Thanh Trung Nguyen; Minh Hai Vu; Ly Dinh Thi Ha; Phi Le Nguyen; Kien Nguyen
Reasoning with the Theory of Mind for Pragmatic Semantic Communication
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas; Emilio Calvanese Strinati; Walid Saad
Monitoring Web QoE in Satellite Networks from Passive Measurements
Gianluca Perna; Martino Trevisan; Danilo Giordano; Daniel Perdices; Marco Mellia
QoE Estimation Method with Time-series Features Extracted from Packet Flows for Video Streaming
Junki Oura; Akihiro Wada; Masatoshi Ogawa; Kaoru Yokoo; Jun Kakuta; Teruhisa NInomiya

Work-In-Progress 6, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 1
Chair: Pietro Manzoni

Machine Learning-based Energy-efficient Workload Management for Data Centers
Matthew C Smith; Luke Zhao; Jonathan A Cordova; Xunfei Jiang; Mahdi Ebrahimi
WIP: Towards a Transactional Network Stack for Power-Failure Resilience
Kai Vogelgesang; Phillip Raffeck; Peter Wägemann; Thorsten Herfet; Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat
On Execution at End Devices for Energy Detection Based Carrier Sense in LPWAN
Shusuke Narieda; Takeo Fujii
Evaluation of RoCE Protocol in Backhaul Systems for Ultra-High-Speed THz Wireless LAN
Norimasa Yafune; Kazuto Yano; Keiichiro Mori; Toshikazu Sakano
Analysis of Clock Distribution in User-centric Radio Access Network for Cell-free Massive MIMO
Takahide Murakami; Naoki Aihara; Yu Tsukamoto; Akio Ikami; Hiroyuki Shinbo; Yoshiaki Amano
Adaptive Network Slicing Control Method for Unpredictable Network Variations using Quality-Diversity Algorithms
Amato Otsuki; Daichi Kominami; Tatsuya Otoshi; Hideyuki Shimonishi; Masayuki Murata
Multimodal Interface for Games: A Case Study with TinyML
Haoxuan Xie; Lam Chi Hou; Lap Tou Chau; Lei Ka Weng; Xichen Wang; Yuxuan Guo; Giovanni Delnevo; Chiara Ceccarini; Chan-Tong Lam; Su-Kit Tang

Work-In-Progress 7, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 2
Chair: Satheesh Kumar Perepu

FadePrint: Satellite Spoofing Detection via Fading Fingerprinting
Gabriele Oligeri; Savio Sciancalepore; Alireza Sadighian
Decentralized Waveform Co-design for Integrated Sensing and Communications systems via Approximate Dynamic Programming
Shammi A. Doly; Alex Chiriyath; Andrew Herschfelt; Md Ali Azam; Shankarachary Ragi; Daniel W. Bliss
Enhancing 360-Degree Video Streaming via Selective Inpainting for Bandwidth Optimization
Pratik Abhijeet Bendre; Shashwat Kumar; Antony Franklin A
FS-Boost: Communication-Efficient Federated Subtree-based Gradient Boosting Decision Trees
Kotaro Shimamura; Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki
Low Latency Self-Interference Suppression in In-Band Full-Duplex Relay
Nann Win Moe Thet; Kenichi Takizawa
Measurement Study of IEEE 802.11ah Sub-1 GHz Wireless Channel Performance
Stefan Aust

Monday, 08 January 2024, 12:30 - 13:30

Luncheon

Room: SCENIC

Monday, 08 January 2024, 13:30 - 15:30

Track 5: Beyond 5G and Towards 6G

Room: RENO
Chair: Johann M. Marquez-Barja

Design and Implementation of Data Plane Supporting Time-Sensitive Networking in 5G Networks
Siang-Jhen Wu; Chien Chen; Jyh-Cheng Chen
Antenna Design for Robust Millimeter Wave LoS-MIMO Link in Mobile Analog Repeater Achieving Low Latency and High Capacity
Masahiro Takigawa; Ryochi Kataoka; Issei Kanno; Yoji Kishi
Natively Secure 6G IoT using Intelligent Physical Layer Security
Israt Ara; Brian T Kelley
Multi-homing AP Connection for Cell-Free Massive MIMO in Distributed CPU Environment
Naoki Aihara; Akio Ikami; Yu Tsukamoto; Takahide Murakami; Hiroyuki Shinbo; Yoshiaki Amano

Track 4: Wireless Communications: Fundamentals and PHY (2/2)

Room: LAUGHLIN 1
Chair: Koji Ishibashi

Data-Driven Tuning of Deep Unfolding-Aided Blind Signal Separation for Short Data Length
Taisuke Nogami; Shinsuke Ibi; Takumi Takahashi; Hisato Iwai
Joint Channel and Data Estimation via Bayesian Parametric Bilinear Inference for OTFS Transmission
Kengo Furuta; Takumi Takahashi; Kenta Ito; Shinsuke Ibi
Monitoring Network Slices with a Genetic Algorithm Approach
Zahraa El Attar; Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul; Geraldine Texier
Robust Deep Learning-based Secret Key Generation in Dynamic LiFi Networks Against Concept Drift
Elmahedi Mahalal; Muhammad Ismail; Zi-Yang Wu; Mostafa M. Fouda; Zubair Md Fadlullah; Nei Kato

Track 3: Next Generation Wireless Protocols: MAC and Above

Room: LAUGHLIN 2
Chair: Claudio E. Casetti

Selective OFDMA Transmission Method Based on Downlink Communication Quality Requirements in IEEE 802.11ax Wireless LANs
Hayato Yamakata, Yosuke Tanigawa Hideki Tode
Congestion State Estimation via Packet-level RTT Gradient Analysis with Gradual RTT Smoothing
Anan Sawabe; Yusuke Shinohara; Takanori Iwai
Revisiting TCP Pacing for Throughput Performance Enhancement over TDD Band in Private Mobile Networks
Anan Sawabe; Yusuke Shinohara; Takanori Iwai
Performance Comparison of Clipped and Filtered OFDM/QAM and SC/APSK With BICM
Kazuaki Hanazawa; Yuto Hama; Hideki Ochiai
SLA-MLO: Congestion-Aware SLA-Based Scheduling of Multiple Links in IEEE 802.11be
Suneel Kumar, Eduard Garcia-Villegas, Daniel Camps

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (5/6)

Room: LAUGHLIN 3
Chair: Roberto Cavicchioli

Chebyshev Polynomial and Private Blockchain Based Cross-Domain Authentication Protocol for IoD Networks
Cong Pu; Kim-Kwang Raymond Raymond Choo; Image Bhattarai
Fair Consensus in Blockchain with Heterogeneous Miners using Reinforcement Learning aided Adaptive Proof-of-Work
Prateek Sethi; Tri Hong Nguyen; Mayukh Roy Chowdhury; Susanna Pirttikangas; Aloizio Pereira Da Silva
On the Analysis of Model Poisoning Attacks against Blockchain-based Federated Learning
Rukayat Olapojoye; Mohamed Baza; Tara Salman
Decentralized Defense: Leveraging Blockchain against Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning Systems
Rashmi Thennakoon; Arosha Wanigasundara; Sanjaya Weerasinghe; Chatura Seneviratne; Yushan Siriwardhana; Madhusanka Liyanage

Track 7: Security, Privacy, and Content Protection (6/6)

Room: VIRGINIA CITY 2
Chair: Mohamed Ibrahem

Robust Aggregation Technique Against Poisoning Attacks in Multi-Stage Federated Learning Applications
Yushan Siriwardhana; Pawani Porambage; Madhusanka Liyanage; Samuel Marchal; Mika E Ylianttila
A Distillation-based Attack Against Adversarial Training Defense for Smart Grid Federated Learning
Atef H. Bondok; Mohamed M E A Mahmoud; Mahmoud M Badr; Mostafa M. Fouda; Maazen Alsabaan
FedSafe-No KDC Needed: Decentralized Federated Learning With Enhanced Security and Efficiency
Mohamed I Ibrahem; Mostafa M. Fouda; Zubair Md Fadlullah
Fingerprinting VPNs with Custom Router Firmware: A New Censorship Threat Model
Sultan Almutairi; Yogev Neumann; Khaled Harfoush

Work-In-Progress 8, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 1
Chair: Claudio Palazzi

A Decentralized Smart Grid Communication Framework Using SDN-enabled Blockchain
Uttam Ghosh; Laurent Njilla; Sachin Shetty; Charles A Kamhoua
DDoS Attacks in Communication: Analysis and Mitigation of Unreliable Clients in Federated Learning
Rekha Reddy; Sogo Pierre Sanon; Christoph Lipps; Hans Dieter Schotten
Detecting DDoS Attacks through AI driven SDN Intrusion Detection System
Francesco Salatino; Mattia Giovanni Spina; Mauro Tropea; Floriano De Rango
On the Trade-off between Privacy and Information Quality in Location Based Services
Francesco Apollonio; Luca Bedogni; Giacomo Gori; Andrea Melis; Marco Prandini
Integrating Blockchain Technology with PKI for Secure and Interoperable Communication in 5G and Beyond Vehicular Networks
Fetulhak Abdurahman Shewajo; Abdelwahab Boualouache; Sidi-Mohammed Senouci; Inès El Korbi; Bouziane Brik; Kinde A. Fante
Autonomous multi-hop network using PSO-based mobile robot swarm with the moving target technique
Kouichi Genda

Work-In-Progress 9, Mini Conference

Room: CARSON CITY 2
Chair: Rajavelsamy R

ACADEME: Aerial Cell-Assisted Device-Edge co-inference ModEl in 6G Wireless Network
Tushar Vrind; Chandan Kumar; Debabrata Das
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Bandwidth Part Assignment in 5G NR-U
Ram Aditya S; Shyamal Dhua; Animesh Kumar; Vimal Bastin Edwin Joseph; Rajavelsamy R
Evaluating CAP Theorem on a Stateless 5G Core
Siddhesh Pratim Sovitkar; Shwetha Vittal; Antony Franklin A
Data-Driven Energy Profiling for Resource-Efficient 5G Vertical Services
Hendrik Schippers; Christian Wietfeld
On the Deployment Control and Runtime Monitoring of Containers based on Consumer Side SBOMs
Nobutaka Kawaguchi; Charlie Hart
Framework: Clustering-Driven Approach for Base Station Parameter Optimization and Automation (CeDA-BatOp)
Sudharshan Paindi Jayakumar; Alberto Conte